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Global Stories

• Law makes human trafficking hard to prosecute FoxNews
• Egypt has a list of Americans that can't leave FoxNews
• $7Bn ponzi architect goes to trial Reuters
• Gingrich wants to put a base on the moon Guardian
• Pentagon shrinks military by 100,000 Guardian

Local News

• New fine-art theater coming to Richland Mall WLTX
• USC requests $5 million for Palmetto College Daily Gamecock
• Haley disagrees with Obama on drop out plan WLTX
• USC School of Music band director gives $1 million WIS

Sports

• Penn State pays tribute to Paterno CNN
• USC wins first SEC basketball game WIS
• Aussie Open: Nadal beat Federer ESPN
• USC Womens basketball refocuses GoGamecocks

Tech

• Twitter allows country-level filtering of tweets TechCrunch
• Hackers have had Symantec's source code for six years Wired
• February 1st is 'change your password' day Gizmodo
• Kim DotCom: the man behind MegaUpload Wired

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